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| 2 | <title>Configuring <application>Sendmail</application></title>
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| 3 |
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| 4 | <sect3><title>Config files</title>
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| 5 | <para><filename>/etc/mail/*</filename></para>
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| 6 | </sect3>
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| 7 |
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| 8 | <sect3><title>Configuration Information</title>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <screen><userinput><command>echo `hostname` > /etc/mail/local-host-names
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| 11 | cat > /etc/mail/aliases << "EOF"
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| 12 | postmaster: root
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| 13 | MAILER-DAEMON: root
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| 14 | EOF
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| 15 | cd /etc/mail &&
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| 16 | cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/* . &&
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| 17 | cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/submit.mc . &&
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| 18 | cp -R /usr/src/sendmail-&sendmail-version;/cf/cf/sendmail.mc . &&
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| 19 | newaliases -v</command></userinput></screen>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>To start and stop Sendmail on system boot/shutdown create the
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| 22 | <command>sendmail</command> boot script with the following commands:</para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <note><para>The -qNm option, where N is number of minutes, controls
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| 25 | how often Sendmail will process the mail queue. A default of 5
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| 26 | minutes is used here. Individual workstation users may want to set
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| 27 | this as low as 1 minute, large installations handling more mail will
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| 28 | want to set it higher.</para></note>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <screen><userinput><command>cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail << "EOF"
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| 31 | #!/bin/sh
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| 32 | # Begin $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
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| 33 |
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| 34 | # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier.
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| 35 | # Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org
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| 36 |
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| 37 | source /etc/sysconfig/rc
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| 38 | source $rc_functions
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| 39 |
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| 40 | case "$1" in
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| 41 |
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| 42 | start)
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| 43 | echo "Starting sendmail..."
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| 44 | loadproc /usr/sbin/sendmail -bs -bd -q5m start
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| 45 | ;;
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| 46 |
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| 47 | stop)
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| 48 | echo "Stopping Sendmail..."
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| 49 | killproc sendmail
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| 50 | ;;
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| 51 |
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| 52 | status)
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| 53 | statusproc sendmail
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| 54 | ;;
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| 55 |
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| 56 | restart)
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| 57 | $0 stop
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| 58 | sleep 1
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| 59 | $0 start
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| 60 | ;;
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| 61 |
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| 62 | *)
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| 63 | echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart}"
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| 64 | exit 1
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| 65 | ;;
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| 66 | esac
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| 67 |
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| 68 | # End $rc_base/init.d/sendmail
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| 69 | EOF
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| 70 | chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/sendmail</command></userinput></screen>
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| 71 |
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| 72 | <para>Create the run level symlinks with the following commands:</para>
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| 73 |
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| 74 | <screen><userinput><command>cd /etc/rc.d/init.d &&
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| 75 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc0.d/K25sendmail &&
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| 76 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc1.d/K25sendmail &&
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| 77 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc2.d/K25sendmail &&
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| 78 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc3.d/S35sendmail &&
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| 79 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc4.d/S35sendmail &&
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| 80 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc5.d/S35sendmail &&
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| 81 | ln -sf ../init.d/sendmail ../rc6.d/K25sendmail</command></userinput></screen></sect3>
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| 82 |
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| 83 | </sect2>
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